About us

The Talent and Career Centre is one of the support services for promoting lifelong employability and career development at the University of Porto, whose mission is to build a Career Community at U.Porto.

What do we do?

We support students and graduates to become active agents in building their careers - careers aligned with their values, interests and objectives, thus increasing personal and professional satisfaction and fulfillment;
We map and disseminate good practices developed by the career services of the Faculties and other University services, as well as other entities, which contribute to promoting employability;
We challenge these services and entities to reflect on the challenges and trends in the job market and in the area of career development, and to co-construct innovative initiatives tailored to the needs of the different target audiences;
We seek to deconstruct the idea that careers are linear. We see them as continuous processes of personal and professional development, shaped by individual, social, cultural and economic factors.

Meet the team

Our team is guided by values based on professional ethics, commitment, responsibility, equality and fairness.

Fernanda Correia

Psychologist in Vocational Intervention, Skills Development and Sustainable Careers (orientation, employment, unemployment, transitions, retirement) and Inclusive Employability.Global Career Development Facilitator.Member of the Advisory Council for Higher Education-Northern Regional Delegation of the Order of Psychologists.Effective member of the OPP.European Certification in Psychology Europsy. Degree and Master's in Psychology, FPCEUP.Consultant, lecturer, trainer, internship supervisor.

Maria Inês Ferreira

Psychologist and trainer with experience in vocational guidance and career facilitation for higher education students. Experience in developing transferable skills for the job market and organizing initiatives linked to promoting employability. Degree and Master's in Psychology from the University of Aveiro. Full member of the OPP with a European Certificate in Europsy Psychology from the EFPA.

Maria Júlia Mello

Psychologist with experience in vocational guidance and career facilitation for university students. She has a background in initiatives to promote employability and entry into the job market, with a focus on diversity and inclusion projects. She has a degree from FPCEUP and is currently completing a master's degree in Organizational, Social and Work Psychology. She works with Núcleo Talento e Carreira as an external collaborator.

Sofia Messias Varge

Degree in Political Science and International Relations from U.Nova de Lisboa and a master's degree in Sociology from U.Porto, with a dissertation on the theme of active aging and the transition to retirement, and was a mobility student at the Institute of Higher European Studies in the Netherlands. She has professional experience in managing national and international projects, technologies (patent portfolio) and events (dissemination of research work, job fairs, among others).